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will pour down their water into the sea, but that does not make the sea increase -- the sea remains the same. Whether something is taken out of it or something is.poured into it makes no difference -- its perfection is such that you cannot take anything out of it and you cannot add anything to it.
He is saying: Look! the inner being is so perfect that your actions may be those of a sinner, but nothing is taken away. And your actions may be those of a saint, but nothing is added unto you. You remain the same.
It is a tremendously revolutionary saying. It is a great statement. He says: Nothing can be added to man and nothing can be deleted from man -- his inner perfection is such. You cannot make man more beautiful and you cannot make man ugly. You cannot make him more rich. you cannot make him poor. He is like the sea.
In one of the Buddhist sutras, Vaipulya sutra, there is a statement that there are two very costly jewels in the ocean -- the one prevents it from becoming less when water is drawn from it, and the other from becoming too large when water flows in it.
Two great jewels are there in the ocean, and those two great jewels prevent it from increasing and decreasing: it never becomes less and it never becomes more -- it just remains the same. It is so vast, it does not matter how many clouds arise out of it and how much water evaporates. It is so vast, it does not matter how many rivers fall into it and bring great amounts of water. It just remains the same.
So is the inner core of man. So is the inner core of existence. Increase and decrease is on the periphery, not at the centre. You can become a man of great knowledge, or you can remain ignorant -- that is only on the periphery. No knowledge can make you more knowing than you already are. Nothing can be added to you. Your purity is infinite; there is no way to improve upon it.
This is the Tantra vision. This is the very core of the Tantra attitude -- that man is as he is. There is no hankering for improvement; not that man has to become good; not that man has to change this and that. Man has to accept all -- and remember his sky!, and remember his sea. And, by
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